Melania Trumps lawyers admit she hoped to cash in on being First Lady by selling clothes/fragrances

[TubbersUK]

First Lady Melania Trump has filed a third lawsuit against The Daily Mail for defamation after the site published a story alleging Mrs. Trump had been an “escort” at one time. As the lawsuit has moved forward, Mrs. Trump was required to prove that the defamation damaged her in some way. Her example of damages are that she can no longer launch a clothing and fragrance line using her office as First Lady of the United States.

According to a report from the New York Post, the court documents allege the Daily Mail caused such financial harm that Mrs. Trump could no longer use her position in government to enrich herself, her brand and products.

“Plaintiff had the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person…to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multi-million dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world,” the lawsuit outlines.

“These product categories would have included, among other things, apparel, accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, hair care, skin care and fragrance,” it continues.

Mrs. Trump is alleging $150 million in damages in their filing to the Manhattan Supreme Court.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/melania-trumps-lawyers-admit-she-hoped-to-cash-in-on-being-first-lady-by-selling-clothes-and-fragrances/

[irisblue]

1. aww. geeze

[Solly Mack]

2. Yeah. Let's all feel sorry for her.

[Phoenix61]

3. In her dreams

Does she think she would be treated any different than Ivanka?

[MrScorpio]

4. Do these people even understand what they're saying at the time?

There's tone deafness and then there's tonal catatonic schizophrenia.

[TubbersUK]

6. That's what's astonishing

not the venality, but the brazen way they go about it, the total lack of embarrassment.

[Cha]

5. Ask Ivanka how that's going..

"According to a report from the New York Post, the court documents allege the Daily Mail caused such financial harm that Mrs. Trump could no longer use her position in government to enrich herself, her brand and products."

Unreal if that's true

[Initech]

7. Ugh, all these people care about is their fucking money.

[NanceGreggs]

8. As a legal argument ...

... that's pretty thin soup.

Had Melania already been in negotiation with manufacturers and fragrance designers, and had reached agreements with distributors and stores to sell her merchandise, there might be an argument here - especially if said agreements were cancelled or withdrawn due to the "defamation" she allegedly suffered.

To say, "Well, I could have made money doing this" doesn't cut it. There is no proof that she ever had any intention of launching a line of merchandise, and certainly no way of calculating what income she would have derived from doing so - or, in the alternative, how much money she could have lost if such a venture failed.

Thin soup indeed.

[avebury]

9. That family is so clueless.

As soon as she tried to "use her position in government to enrich herself" the pitchforks would come out and a demand to boycott her stuff even worse then what Ivanka has experienced.

[dubyadiprecession]

10. Does she really need the money, that bad?